When Tina Fey and Rosalind Wiseman wrote the quintessential line “on Wednesdays, we wear pink” in their Mean Girls script, they had no idea that one day it would apply to a scientific study about flamingos. In Mean Girls, this quote is delivered to the newest member of an elite high school clique so she won’t
Month: March 2023
In its quest to turn the culinary talents of passionate home cooks into small businesses, Shef, a chef-to-consumer marketplace, is now taking those efforts nationwide. Shef works with local cooks making authentic, homemade dishes and provides them with business tools, like menu formation and pricing, photography, how to create their bios and how to market
Every year, about 35% of the food supply in the U.S. is wasted. About half of that’s because of picky eaters or outsize restaurant portions, but the rest happens further upstream, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with about 6% to 13% occurring at grocery stores. For grocery stores, which operate on very thin
It’s the beginning of March, and that can only mean one thing: March Madness is around the corner. It’s that time of the year when we buckle down for some serious basketball season research and begin filling out our brackets with the foolish hope that our No. 1 pick isn’t going to get knocked out
While Nike likes to dabble in the out-and-out nerd market sometimes, from Doraemon to Hello Kitty, for the most part the company likes to keep its collabs subtle, and has not worked with Nintendo for a long time. Meaning it will likely never officially release shoes this nice. CC Off English The sneakers you’re seeing
On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category. Another pledged to reach an annual
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) have today filed charges against publisher Activision—a company with a long track record of alleged union-busting—claiming the publisher violated several workplace laws in relation to the firing of two QA testers. CC Off English The charges are related to Activision’s recent decision to begin forcing workers back into the
In addition to physical SIM cards storing your carrier subscription info and contacts, over the last few years phone-makers have been offering eSIMs embedded into phones to easily switch between service providers without swapping out a physical card. But chipmaker Qualcomm has a new way to digitally swap service: the iSIM, or integrated SIM, which
StudentFinance, a European fintech that funds educational programs for individuals through so-called income share agreements, has raised €39 million ($41 million) in a Series A round of funding. Founded out of Spain in 2019, StudentFinance partners with educational institutions such as Ironhack and Le Wagon to help finance those looking to upskill into disciplines like software